Coastal dune development in a thermokarst environment: Some implications for environmental reconstruction, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula N.W.T.

• Published in: Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
• Main Author: Ruz, Marie‐Hélène
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1993
• Subjects: Barrier Islands; Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula; Permafrost and Periglacial Processes; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppp.3430040307; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fppp.3430040307; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ppp.3430040307

Abstract The landscape of the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula coastal plain, Northwest Territories, has been strongly affected by thermokarst processes. Along thermokarst lakes developed in glacio‐fluvial sands lake‐shore dunes are common. Their formation seems related to complete or partial lake drainage. Du...